Faith Baptist Church of Higginsville, Missouri Podcast

Worship Service 08/10/2025

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Preacher: Jeremy Herbert

Theme: Contentment

Text: Philippians 4, 1 Timothy 6

Notes:

  1. Focus on godliness
    • “godliness with contentment is great gain”
    • Deuteronomy 8:18, “the Lord your God…it is he who gives you power to get wealth”
    • God is both the source and the object of our joy and contentment
    • Godly contentment doesn’t preclude wise and holy ambition–it simply precludes making wealth the source or object of our happiness
    • You can’t take it with you, but you can send it ahead
      • 1 Timothy 6:7, “we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.”
      • Luke 16:9, “make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth,”
      • Learn to live without so that we can learn to live with
        • 1 Timothy 6:8, “if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.”
        • We learn to focus on spiritual joy when we are distracted by things
        • “The soul that is only content with things will never be content”
        • We must watch our desires
          • We must avoid distraction from present reality
          • We must avoid attempting to fill soul emptiness with temporal wealth
          • We must avoid seeking status in temporal wealth
          • Craving wealth always ends badly
            • 1 Timothy 6:9, “those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.”
            • Jeremiah Burroughs, ‘The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment’, having much is more dangerous than having little, because you can afford harmful temptations
            • When you cling tightly to things it hurts more when they are taken away
            • Wealth tempts us to be prideful
            • Wealth tempts us to oppress others
            • Micah 2:1-2
            • Wealth tempts us to trust ourselves
              • Hosea 13:6, “but when they had grazed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.”
              • Contentment results in generosity
              • 2 Corinthians 9
              • Matthew 6:19-27
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